Enabling Earth science through cloud computing

Cloud Computing holds tremendous potential for missions across the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Several flight missions are already benefiting from an investment in cloud computing for mission critical pipelines and services through faster processing time, higher availability, and...

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Main Authors: Hardman, Sean, Riofrio, Andres, Shams, Khawaja, Freeborn, Dana, Springer, Paul, Chafin, Brian
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2012 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2014/45017
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Summary:Cloud Computing holds tremendous potential for missions across the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Several flight missions are already benefiting from an investment in cloud computing for mission critical pipelines and services through faster processing time, higher availability, and drastically lower costs available on cloud systems. However, these processes do not currently extend to general scientific algorithms relevant to earth science missions. The members of the Airborne Cloud Computing Environment task at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have worked closely with the Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment (CARVE) mission to integrate cloud computing into their science data processing pipeline. This paper details the efforts involved in deploying a science data system for the CARVE mission, evaluating and integrating cloud computing solutions with the system and porting their science algorithms for execution in a cloud environment. NASA/JPL